Mentor’s Xpedition is a software suite for electronic systems and circuit board design. This post details its capabilities and associated benefits.
Electronic Board System Design
Altair HyperWorks: Expert Electrical Analysis
Altair HyperWorks is a suite of analysis tools for simulation experts. This post reviews this solution in the context of electrical and electronic design.
4 Tips to Engineer Smart Connected Products
For some, the IoT era represents a tremendous opportunity. For others, it is a significant threat. Either way, almost every company is trying to figure out how to engineer smart connected products. You can slap some sensors on your product and start streaming terabytes of data, but that doesn’t equal success. This post provides four tips on …
Mentor’s Capital: Enterprise Electrical Design
Mentor’s Capital Platform is a software suite for electrical systems and harness design. This post details its capabilities and associated benefits.
Zuken’s CR-8000: Enabling Multi-Board System Design
Zuken’s CR-8000 is a software suite for electronics engineering, including multi-board system design. This post details their capabilities and advantages. Over the course of the past couple of years, I’ve been digging deeper and deeper into system engineering. Very frequently, that means using methodologies to deal with the complexities of designing across multiple engineering disciplines. …
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You Might Not Know It, But You’re Designing Systems
Does your company need system engineering? That’s a basic question that an increasing amount of companies are starting to ask themselves. No organization can afford to really ponder these kinds of questions without some motivation. No, there’s a reason they are becoming introspective in this way: there are some serious implications of failed system-level prototypes. …
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Designing in Virtual Reality: Making Ironman’s Jarvis Real
Ever daydream about designing in virtual reality with Ironman’s Jarvis? Analyzing new technologies, this post suggests it may become reality soon.
A Single Source of the Truth for the BOM Still Doesn’t Exist
It is crazy how time flies. Blink and 2015 is gone. I guess that’s what happens when you get busy. I hope that 2016 decides to pass by a little more slowly. But I don’t think I’ll have much luck with that. Regardless, I have a topic that I’ve wanted to touch upon for quite …
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No More Excuses: It’s Time to Merge MCAD and ECAD
I have a confession. Something’s been bothering me. Amidst all of the talk about the Internet of Things, it doesn’t seem to get much airplay. I’ve asked providers of software for engineering about it several times, but it gets roundly put aside and ignored. Few seem to care. But for me, I just can’t reconcile …
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